![]() The Problem: Noto-Sans-Arabic doesn’t look right at all for reading content on the screen. : iOS seems to use a mix of naskh and sans-like fonts, which TBH looks terrible and bold-ed Books, Textbooks, Official documents, Newspapers, and MOST IMPORTANTLY: Arabic texts in virtually all common operating systems (Android, Windows, mac os, iOS) is rendered with some variation of the Naskh style of Arabic calligraphy. ![]() ![]() In Arabic typography, the Naskh style is the dominant style across all media of text. However the concept of Sans/Serif in topography has little meaning in Arabic typography/Calligraphy and is definitely a foreign concept to Arabic typography. The current fedora default for arabic is the Noto-Sans-Arabic since it’s the obvious choice as it was designated as Sans by google noto team. ![]() Noto arabic family contains Noto-Sans-Arabic and Noto-Naskh-Arabic. Fortunately that changed with fedora switching to Noto family by default. Proposal: improve fedora Arabic font by switching to Noto-Naskh instead of Noto-Sans.īackground: All Linux distros have always had terrible Arabic fonts. ![]()
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